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Old Jun 13, 2008 | 12:41 pm
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Originally Posted by studentbecometeacher
Hardly. It would take much more to offend me. My thoughts regarding your posts are similar to how Japanese people react to foreigners and foreigners' inability to understand keigo: hardly a surprise. Also, I do like it as well when foreigners speak katakana like English, but that's another discussion.
Your generalisation about 'Japanese people' and their reactions is crude and bordering on the offensive.

It goes much further in the way of assumptions than the 'he' used as a default in English you've picked jib71 up on.
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